The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-11
MERCURY CREEPING UP.
SIGNAL OBSERVERS TAKING
HOURLY OBSERVATIONS.


The Signal Bureau and the New York
worlds" Balloon Expedition-Yes-
terday the Hottest Day Savannah
Has Experienced in Many Years
Mercury Up to Ninety-Six Degrees.
The observers at the signal station had a
busy day of it yesterday. Observations
were taken hourly from Z o'clock in the
morning until II o'clock last night, and will
he continued to-day and tomorrow for the
purpose of comparison with observations
taken by Prof. Hazen, who will accompany
the New York World balloon expedition,
which is expected to start from ST. Louis to-
day.
WATCHING THE WEATHER.
Chief Signal Officer Greedy issued orders
several days ago to observers at the princi-
pal stations in the service to report hourly
during the fight of the expedition the gen
eral character of the weather, the same as
reported at all regular observa-
tions. The observers at the Savan-
nah station were kept almost constantly
at the instruments yesterday and the seven
teen observations that were taken necessi-
tated large amount of clerical work. The
comparisons to be made with the obser-
vations taken by Prof. Hazen are expected
to afford a great deal of valuable informa-
ton to the Signal Bureau.
MERCURY AT HIGH TIDE.
Savannah was, with two exceptions, An
gusta and Charleston, the hottest place in
the United States yesterday. The mean
temperature of the day, according to the
Signal Bureau reports, was 81, the highest
recorded here in many years. The maximum
temperature was 96'. This is one degree be-
low the maximum on Thursday, but the
mean temperature for Thursday was only
81, four degrees below that of yesterday.
The heat during the middle Of the day
was intense and from noon until 2 o'clock
everybody who was compelled to be on the
streets sought the shady side
SODA WATER BOOM
There was a regular boom at the soda
water stands, and everybody who had a
thermometer kept a close watch on it to see
if the mercury crowded the top off.
When the O'Clock observation was taken
at the signal station mercury was at the 7S'
mark. An hour later it had gone up TO 81
At o'clock it was IS, at 10 it was
SO, and at IL it had just passed 80,
At noon it was close to 80, and before
o'clock it was up to 90. This was the high
est it went during the day. The o'clock
observation read "a. At 2 o'clock it
had dropped to %, but at
1t went up again to nearly 94'. At that
point it began falling, and when the last
observation was taken last night it had got
down TO So.
The only station in the signal service that
reported any higher temperature was Au-
gusta, which reported 99' Charleston re-
ported 97', Jacksonville, Fla, 92', Mont
gomery, Ala, go, and Atlanta 90. The
hot section seemed to be in Georgia and
South Carolina.
NO SIGNS OF LET UP.
A very low barometer area extends over
both States indicating a continuance of the
hot spell The weather north, east, west
and even south of here is cooler. The pres
emit month will go on record as the
hottest IN several years. Yester
days temperature was nearly A.
higher than was recorded any time last
year or the year before The Observer on
duty last night said that there is no prospect
of let up. The early part of the night was
intensely warm, but before midnight a
thunder storm passed over the city, cooling
the atmosphere several degrees.
FULL REPORTS RESUMED.
The signal bureau until now has been send
ing out only partial reports, and the Savan-
nah station has not had the information
which it had before the full reports were cut
off in March by reason of Congress failure
to pass the deficiency bill. Yesterday, how
ever, the full reports were resumed. They
would have been sent out anyway on July
!, when the regular appropriation for the
maintenance of the signal service becomes
available, but the department has begun
sending them two weeks earlier than was
expected. This will render the service
much more valuable by reason of the wide
area from which the reports are received.